July 5, 2012 / Front Page

Changes to the Georgia Regulated Metals Recycling Law that took effect July 1, Wilkes County Sheriff Mark Moore says, will significantly change how scrap metal dealers do business and should help cut down on the number of scrap metal thefts. More...

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When Pee Wee Armour was going through some papers in an old chest last week, he came across a receipt for the hospital stay of his mother, Elizabeth (Liz) Armour, when he and his twin brother, Richard Grier Armour were born on April 5, 1948. More...

Reporter and author Howard Blum set out to write the true story of three men who lived in the 1890’s. He had encountered the records of three unusual adventurers, Charles Siringo, Jefferson Smith, and George Carmack. More...

The Kettle Creek Pilot Club was chartered in a meeting Saturday, June 16, in the Conference Room of Talk of the Town as 19 new members signed the document to commit themselves to this all-volunteer international organization. More...

Tignall Baptist Vacation Bible School July 9-13 Vacation Bible school at Tignall Baptist will be July 9-13 with a light supper at 5:30 p.m. for children and workers each night. VBS starts at 6 p.m. and goes till 8:30 p.m. More...

Vacation Bible School was held at Mallorysville Baptist Church June 4-8. The Bible-based theme for the event was “In God’s Garden.” The children studied “The Fruit of the Spirit” with their lessons based on Galatia More...

An encore production of “Smoke on the Mountain” will be presented at the Bolton Lunceford Playhouse on Thursday-Saturday, July 26-28, at 7:30 p.m. each evening and on Sunday, July 29, at 3 p.m.. More...

Losses, one right after another, are the toughest to handle emotionally. We tend to go down inside ourselves into dark places we cannot seem to find our way out of. We let things go that were important to us. More...